CoRecursive: Coding Stories

The Hutter Prize

The Bitter Lesson: The history of reinforcement learning

The Pre-Training Wall and the Treadmill After It

Story: The Aging Programmer

The podcast explores the challenges and perceptions of aging in the software development industry, questioning whether experience is valued or if developers face ageism. Kate Gregory, a veteran C++ programmer and cancer survivor, shares insights from her survey on programmers' fears about aging, revealing eyesight conc...

From Hacker News to TikTok - How Algorithms Learned to Hook Us

Notes: The Universal Paperclip Clicker

Story: Inside Early Google - Race Conditions, Java Pain, and the Birth of AdWords

Story: The Bug He Couldn't Name - A 15-Year Fight Inside One Developer's Mind

Story: Godbolt's Rule - When Abstractions Fail

Story: Risk Rolls Downhill - The Software Bug That Sent People to Prison

Quick Update

Coding in the Red-Queen Era

When AI Codes, What’s Left for me?

In this episode of CoRecursive, Adam Gordon Bell explores the developer community's division over AI coding agents, moving beyond typical debates about job replacement to focus on the personal impact on developers whose identities are tied to building. Sharing his journey from a rural, isolated childhood where coding b...

Story: Coding Through Chaos : Addiction, Recovery and Acceptance

Adam Gordon Bell interviews John Walker, a software developer and security researcher, about his struggles with fitting in, addiction, and mental health. John recounts his early experiences with computers and hacking, his experimentation with drugs, and his eventual journey to sobriety. He discusses his challenges with...

Story: The Power of Context: Reimagining Learning

Story: briffa_sep98_e.pro - The File That Sparked a Storm

Story: Hateris - Obsession, Friendship, and World Records

Story: One Million Checkboxes - The Viral Game That Defied Convention

Story: Leaving Stripe

Story: Inside Shopify's Layoffs